Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 October 1888 — Page 1

Vol. 19.—No. 17.

THE_MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment,

A spicy column of "Woman's Chat" came In loo lata for this issue. It will bare a place in next week's Mall.

James Whltcomb Riley's poems are to be published in England. Hie "'Hoosier Poet" is getting there in fine shape at last. ________

A two billion bashel corn crop! Which political party is to have the credit for this? And which one is to be held responsible for short wheat and dear bread? ________

Mary Anderson, "our Mary," is going to bring ovosr with her this season 1200 dresses and 800 wigs. It will keep the average American woman pretty bwy to follow all of Mary's fashions.

Prank James, the ex-robber, has refused $125,000 and expenses to "star" for three years In a border drama. Mr.

James

doubtless feels that he has had

enough sins to answer for already without adding any new ones to the score.

When Blaine spoke at Grand Rapids, Mich., all the factories closed that the men might have an opportunity to hear him. The plan is a good oneand should be followed in case of the leading Democratic orators as wol! as the Republicans. The issue of the campaign has a vital interest for the worklngmen and they should be given a chance to hear both aides from tbo ablest expounders in each party, so that they may reach an intelligent decision.

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It is pleasant to note that the ladles are managing to extract amusement in their own ways out of the campaign. One of their amusements is the making of badge bod quilts, which consist of the various badges of the numerous parties that flgnre in the present campaign. To possess the proper degree of craalness the quilt should be composed of an Impartial pro potion of oach kind of badges, hjhose of no one particular party being allowed to preponderate. To do this requires nerve and a more than judicial disregard of passion and prejudice.

The making of badge quilts Is therefore a diaolpUtie, of thfhK and is more commendable work than some of the voting sex are engaged in at the present time.

There are some young men in this town, as there are iu every other, who are clouding their prospects by extravagant living. They have positions which yield them good living but they sre not satisfied with this and try to make an appoarfhee which their incomes do not justify. The Incentive is that some one else in their set is doing apparently a little better than they are and they want to made aa good a show as "the other fellow."

There is no safe and honest living except that whloh stays within one's Inoorne. A man who saves no more than a dollar a week Is in a certain sense independent, while he

who

and decisively if luxurious tastes are outrunning your ability to gratify them.

Vhe Indianopolls News, with its customary

broad-mindedness,

Only about three weeks more remain of the great campaign l&®* little while longer the campaign orator may lift his voice in frantic appeals in behalf of his candidnte and hi* cause. The torchlight proceeslons will Increase frequency and in length *nl the calls f,»r cash for "legitimate purposes" only, of course, will he mor* numerous and pressing. October wanes and election draws on space, the demand* for money tin national, state and county wmmUlww will be something nor minis and already the cry its heard that there!* not the wherewithal to meet them.

But the end will soon l*h, We aland the noise* turn nit a- wt rotten when we reflect that a sutiii*® c—4 «Ul

come with November 6th. Hie ballots that fall on that day will tell the story and settle it one way or the other for four years to come.

Meantime there is only one thing for the good citizen, who desires the best interests of the country to prevail and that is quietly settle in his own mind what is the wisest course to pursue and which one of the two parties that are contesting for the mastery come snearest to his ideas on the subject and then vote that way on election day. Moat of the people have made up their minds already and all Jthe fuss and noise that can be be made between now and the election will not change them. But as usual the fuss will go on just the same and those who don't like It will have to grin and bear it, that's all.

Corn is king this year without a doubt. While the wheat crop is short many millions of bushels, that of corn outruns anything ever heard of before and exceeds two billion of bushels! Corn therefore will be cheap, however high wheat and flour msy go. There is solid comfort In this for those of limited incomes and with many mouths to feed. The pioneers lived on corn meal almost and to this day there is no better bread than alight rich loaf of Indian meal. The best hotels have it regularly on their bills of fare and it is eagerly called for by most of their guests. Corn cakes, corn pone, corn muffins, mush and milk and the various forms In which corn meal can be used, are at once appetizing and healthful. Indeed we would all be better off If wo used less of fine, white wheaten bread and more of the compounds of Indian meal. Dame nature evidently meant to point the way to a dietetic reform in giving us this year a short wheat and along corn crop. It will be r, most favorable time to experiment with the staff of life of our forefathers and we shall not be the worse for doing so.

News and Interviews.

A prominent business man and one of the most energetic informed me that the prospects are bright for the location of a large manufacturing establishment In this city next spring. Torre Haute Is recognized as a musical center, but if uttforseen circumstances are not inter posed there will be an extensive piano faotoiy located here IpJ-he spring* The prdpftotor of the establishment, which is

now

spends a dollar

a week more than ho makes Is tending towards fiinanolal dlsaftw and possible dishonesty. Many a young man has ruined his bright prospects In life by over-spending.

Call halt promptly

turns aside

from the heat and dust of the campaign, to note the literary activity that is going on in the towns of Indiana. "It is of little Importance to the outside world," it says, "that Goshen hasa lecture oourse arranged for the winter, that the ladies of Richmond are studying music, or that 8h*keepearfe is being read by a club at Crew ford*viHe. Yet movements of this kind are what bring about the growth of culture. We believe that Indiana is In advance of most States in this reepeet, and for this reason we think the matter worthy of special mention."

Not only is this true, hut the intellectual spirit of the llooeler State is shown by the large number of successful and popular writers It has produced. The book that leads ail others of its time is the work of an Indiana author and there area score of other writer* In the Slate whose pens have brought them literary fame aa well as substantial monetary gains.

located in the East, was here a

few days ago and looked about the city lie was favorably impressed with the business interests and was pleased with the advantages offered to his particular line. A number of sites for the loca tion of the factory were looked over. The manufactory employs in all about three hundred men. Of these a very large number are skilled workmen such as could not be obtained in this city. In the event the factory is moved here here, soveral hundred skilled workmen and their families will be brought to swell our population. The manufacturer found that he could procure the wood required In this vicinity. He purchases it at present in the West, ships it East to this factory and then ships his pianos to Western territory where they find the readiestsales. Besides overcoming theee disadvantages, the cost of operating a factory would be leas here than In the East. Owing to the lateness of the year it will not be advisable to remove the factory until spring when suitable buildings can be erected.

"We're startln' in a little early, but trade is good," said a peddler of meats as he threw a roast into the scales for a oustomer. He is a farmer and lives in Sullivan county, but twice a week brings meat to this city. He said that last winter he found it a profitable business and that he expected to continue in it this year. He named seven persons near the south line of the county who have started to peddle meat during the winter and each is mapping out a route in the city and securing customers. A year ago meat peddling became of such large proportions that the city butchers made war upon those who came in to de tract from their trade. An attempt was made to pass an ordinance imposing a license upon those who peddled meat, in the hope of excluding many of them, but the council refused. From present indications there will be more meat •old from farm wagons this winter than last, unless the butchers contrive to defeat the plans of the outsider*.

Dr. Henry W. Taylor state* that he is at present reading the proof sheets of a novel which he ba*completed. The work will he gotten out by a Chicago publishing house and will be dy for tl market in a *»T\ »rt time. Ihe novel entitled: "W.UJey Woods." It la an Indiana story and Is written partially In Hooaier dialect. The doctor has written quite a number of shorter al riea 1- dittg with pioneer life in tV CM *", *od enjoy* quite an extended »n an Indiana writer. Denlsoa, be r-Jh llsher, of Chicago* announces the p-.i.h-cation of a work of fiction from tb» p*-n of Jo O aa F. Mc^ tU The rk I* enured wroken IJ V* r--* w... placed on aale In a»v. I ks. scenes aad inc i5,-»t». ara l» In this vi­

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Hie indications are that the price off coal will be lower this winter than far several past. A prominent dealer said that the exchange was undoubtedly!* thing of the past. A war on prices atg close of last winter sent priccs down There is a strong disposition on the part of a few to renew the warfare as soon the winter trade haa thoroughly set

TERRE HAUTE, IND„ SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13,1888

cinity and the work abounds in striking situations. Judge McNutt is a forcible writer and the new work will be read with interest. "The Bascomb Wilt Case," another novel written by the judge, will be published by the Haipersf^ TRY HOME AND HOW TO ENJOY IT. Readers are familiar with the author's shorter stories which have been published. ______

Another feature of the situation ta the »essof the country to escape me. fact that then are a number of riv*i| companies which will endeavor to establish their particular grade in this markket this winter. This will have a tendency to keep prices down Block coal mines are not doing much at present and it is probable the operators will pay more attentiou to the Terre Haute mark« this winter than last. Local coal dealers do not take an encouraging view of the winter's prospects

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In speaking of election bets an attorney said that many are of the opinion that those who put up monoy on the result are disqualified from voting. This is a mistaken idea. In some states there is such a law but not in Indiana. However, the law is never enforced and is practically a dead letter. Nearly every voter makes abet of some kind, from a cigar to large suras of money. It requires much trouble to prove conclusively that a voter has made abet and little attention is paid to the law in consequence where it is supposed to be in force. It is also the case, generally speaking, that the bet is between men of the two strongest parties and the disqualification of one voter means the disqualification of the other. In this state there is a law touching the subject of election bets. Anyone making a bet is disqualified from serving on an electtion board. If such a person does serve it does not vitiate the returns for it has been held by the Joourts that such a flimsy technicality can not be used to defeat the will of ,the people.

The large ball which was used in the Republican procession last Saturday night was an object of great interest Mid. atHrktfteff the curltfus of a'l parties. While it remained here there were many comments made upon it. The Democrats were particularly anxious to make some bright retort whenever the ball was mentioned. Perhaps Mayor Kolsem dismissed the matter from his mind as well as any when his attention was oalled to the mammoth globe. "Why." said he, gazing at it intently, "there is absolutely nothing in it!" But one genius, who Is no doubt a base ball crank, surveyeu the ball possibly from imaginary "bleaching boards." He tooK the diameter of the ball as a basts of his calculations and the publio square as the home plate. He figured that players in order to use Ridge Farm ball, about fifteen feet In diameter, in the national game would be required to be 672 feet in height. The pitcher would be stationed at Indianapolis and the catcher on the bluffs beyond West Terre Haute to take them "off the bat." The bat used in such a game would be required to be 300 feet in length. The ball, itwaa estimated, would commence curving by the time it reached Brazil. Cincinnati was named as first base, and with a strong batter like Thompson, of Detroit, it was computed that the big ball could be knocked to Pittsburg. The "home run," howev er, will be when Harrison lands in the White House. _______'

Mr. John Beggs, of the distillery, said that the business of the conHnmy would aggregate more for the present week than for any other since the organisation of the Terre Haute company. The amount paid into the revenue office will be larger than ever before. The distillery is the largest in the world. It has the largest capacity and when run to the limit would consume 7,200 bushels per day. The present capacity is 3^00 bushels, but this could at any time be doubled* The output Is now over 1,000 barrels per day.

There never waa but one man who eould talk for ten minutes at about this period of an election year without saying anything about politics, and he Is dead—gone to meet the married woman who was known to sit through a whole sewing society said never mention her "girl" and the young lady who never heard to speak of fashions.

Mabel Boyson, aged 4, was burned to •holt at Brw-». Monday, by the explosion of a o.m"- 'i* »Q which an older slater was using while bail iing a fire.

fMf confidence half the battle. Many a art man i* .ring e'-i !th«* because be haant the c- urage to la k-:« the tail ^aadg 'itandoff.*'

dav i* a jittsc lit* ar.«l «arwho]«* ii outa day repeat*a. *T-.- not best Ui wfl«r pain *or wn one ttl© day, when »ae apj stl of Wan»er% Log Cabin Extract will drive It quick away. Nothing better for external or Internal

IWrltten for the Mall]

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MISB CLEVELAND'S IDEAS "OF A OOUN-

Love of Nature and Love of ths Country Two Different Thing*—The True Test of Lorn for ike Country—A Real Country

Home—Some Valuable Hints for Those Who Spend Their Slimmer* «a the Ocmntry. [Copyrighted, 1888.] I shall not soon forget the searching gaze which examined and cross-examin-ed me when, at an evening company me little time since, I allowed a faint nd fractional expression of my fond-

I do

not know why my particular pipe should have been honored with the particular attention of this charming critic, for there was a general orchestra of sound in the air of this drawing-raom, all to the same general effect—enthusiasm for the country. All Mrs. Skewton's living relatives and friends might have been present from the amount of expressed passion for "cows anil china,"

Whether a false note struck her ears or not, the eyes of this beautiful woman were very severe "and very serious, as she demanded of me, "Do you really and truly love the country and country-life?' Her eyes were full first of incredulity, •Sten of credulity, and then of sympathy. On the strength of her question and my answer, we4 became'fast friends. She would accept no bogus bucolics.

This lady told me afterward that she had been made so irritable over insincer gbeh about nature and Hha country" that she found herself ready to fly Into a very bad temper on'the occasion referred to. She declared then and declares flow that there Is nothing about which these Is so much nauseating insincerity as this question of bucolics. It is, perhaps, to her that I am indebted for the subject of this paper and the one or two points I desire to make in it.

I suspect my friend is rightjin saying that on this topic of love of nature, love of the country, and fondness for countrylife there is a great deal of humbug. One might say, however, that it is a very harmless humbug so harmless that it were scarcely worth one's while to try to disturb its oomplaoent unselfconaciousness by a single jog in the opposite direction, weretheie not possible of £&Wvetu*tfrifi tts plafce so positive a reality.

Between the love of nature abstractly considered and the love of the country there is a distinction to be made. Pleuty of people are sufficiently appreciative of the beauty of a fine rural landscape as seen from the windows of a drawingroom coach who could not be content to spend a single week in the midst of it. Real love between nature *nd man, as between man and man, is tested by the drawing and holding quality. A genuine lover of the country cannot always stay away from Jit. His mistress is as tyrannou^Sin her attractions as is the sea to a sailor with such an one, love of nature includes love of a particular bit of country and a devotion to country life It is one thing to be entranced in the presence of the Jungfrau or amid the glories of the Yosemite Valley, to be awed at Niagara, to be thrilled wtth the solitary loveliness of the Adirondack lakea and forests, to filled with delight amid the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence during the passing pleasure trip of summer season. Quite another thing is to choose, for the love of it, a sequestered spot in a landscape familiar as the face of a friend and beautiful because familiar, if not because of fair features, and oblivious of the charms of Newport or Saratoga to settle down to the every-day intimacies with nature which living in and with the country permit, if not compel. In the one experience we may fairly claim that we ad mire nature, in the other we may truly say that we love her. One is the ideal thing the other la the real feeling for the real thing. Hie one is a grand pas «ion, perhaps the other a natural affection.

No one who truly loves country-life claims that the country is perfect nothing savors more strongly of bogus bucolics than this claim. Every true lover of the country lovea her so well that be loves her with all her faults. He has his trials living with her, but he takes ber for better or for worse. Real love of the country Involves, as does all real love, a degree of discipline. I am not here hinting of the infelicities of coun try-life aa regards material things. Everybody, whether amiably or the contrary, has experienced the onpleasanV ness of being "twelve miles from a lem on." All this Is an axiom. There is a point here, bnt it If not my point at this present writing.

Moat proverbs are mischievous by their implicate :i*, Mid none than the r^ry suggestive one, made the c_antry, and man mad« town." Pew of us won id ci'joet to a judmou§ mtnglingof o:an in the ticking of "1

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traeteat"' MI t!' '•••unfiT'* in one's '-.Jarl sv u. Nato r«*• large, tot «ed ligi :ri *"olw, mpe-' tim,

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up the village street and round your corner before taking the next train, and raves about your elms with that fury whioh knoweth that its time is short from the side-bar buggy of the dry goods clerk and his young woman who drive through from the city not too far distant on a holiday, and fatigue superlativos in honest delight at the fairness and pleasantness of their paths—to all these nature is a beautiful stranger, with whom, whatever their deluslofis on the subject, they are not truly familiar. It is for theee to say, with bucolics unconsciously bogus, "God made the country, and man made the town," piously ascribing to the party having a contract in the first part the best of the bargain.

Out of just such untried enthusiasm as is referred, to the department of bogus bucolics, may oorne the real thing. The before desoriled is not a bad way to fall in love. The test of the lover is in his pursuit*oThis fair one. Let these same enthusiasts over nature at large see her no longer abstractly, touch her no longer lightly, but grasp her with the grip of proprietorship, whether over a bit of hor broken up into a country door-yard outside a frame house and Inside a picketfence, or in grander guise of swelling slopes of expensive lawn, enclosed by the latest style of careful carefulness in a hedge of chosen weeds or a parapet of rough hewn stone whether the house be owned or rented, there will be opportunity for the real test. It is all the difference between courtship and marriage. One's admiration becomes less extravagant and more reasonable one's manner less impassioned and more affectionate.. ...

One must live iu the country he loves to love it long aud well. There must be the inexorable reciprocity that all love demands equal parts of nature and of man. He must get from her and give to her. He must feel dependent on her there must come Into this true love, as in ail love at its last and best, a touch of the relation of mother and of child. The row of elms under which, as beneath a cathedral dome, he has paced in many times of human desolation, through whose columns he has worshipped toward the East at many a mystio moonrlse, under whose arches he has questioned solemn stars at midnight, whose maternal*" arms bad reached tenderly earthward for him, and stretched for him also their supplicating mediation beaven-ward-^these elms are like no 6therelins, even as his mother's face cannot be matched for him in all the multitude of mothers' faces on the earth. There is no real love of the country which has not its culmination and climax in the possessive pronoun. The real lover loves his own couDtry best. If be has no own country (when he might have) he cannot be said to have a real love, but only to bo possessed of the indiscrlmihate gallantry of the man of the world who has no home, and who waits the predes tined dart of f'upid to fix his fancy.

The real way to become a true lover (If it is in you) Is to get married. The real way to love nature is to wed a bit of country, to take it for bettor or for worse for your very own, to settle down to it and live in it, until you know its every possible mood and influence in all winds and weathers to invest your pride and reputation in it, to give yourself up to it all summer, part of some winters, and begin to stop roaming. With nature there is no fear that familiarity will breed contempt. She is the only genuine horo to her valet.

It matters less than one believes, at the start, where this particular spot of green earth is. Nature has always something fetching and fixing about her. One part of the country can always boast some superiority over another part. One must do as a wise man does with his wife or his horse, brag of undeniable and apparent points otherwise, silence. The possessive pronoun will do the rest. "Ill-favored, but mine own!" The "mine own" is the magic which trans forms every Audrey.

If you wish to possess the real article in place of bogus bucolics, cease to be a summer roamer. Cease eagerly to take at bankrupting prices, board and» lodg Ing at some crowded "resort" or fashionable fad of a place which at your town home you would scarcely offer to your servants. Cease to rent a house here, there, everywhere, if never twice in the same place. Nature will bear with you long, but In the end will despise you and punish you for your dis regard of her liberal offers of hospitality Somewhere is th« very »pot for you to be happy with ber. Find it!

If you cannot buy, rent. If you can not rent, boards but find a good place and go tfa*r* for, at l**«t, a part of each vear. until v«ii have ^ae to l.ave a delicious sort of understanding with the goddess who bamrji th'/w hill* and streams ami troves. I ••••l! :-.-wer

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shade hat of the imnsieiit" who floats! year on th• purchase price of a house op,

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i!j wiii gra'iiiaily ni»ce*'3rf'riwin'4diaeov "rj of how h'i *utn- paid to your ho- «fble. t/'l or yottr I»:1] ly for a wal *1 i.i'-'lv -1 a in wotiM »y rest? 1. in a round (he '•'•rn*-r vh.eb la with'»nt a tenant orf tnort astounding

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the road which you know is for sale. This idea, once well lodged in your brain, will work wonders. You will walk for exercise round that oorner continually. You will look long and fixedly at the cottage to let. There will be speculation always In your orbs. You will see how very little expenditure, under proper direction,would make a different place of it. This train of thought will go on until a sudden realisation of how impossible would be these improvements unless oue were owner and proprietor, builds a swift dam to your flood of alterations to the little cottage In alarm you hasten to ascertain the cottage may be bought at a bargain. While still intoxicated with the dazzling possibilities looming up, a sober second thought suggests that you should look around a little and not be hasty. While thinking this matter over, you will abstractedly walk up the road, and soon find yourself contemplating tho house which is for sale. As there Is no harm in the word in merely looking at a thing, you will examine this new property with interest, and although the price asked is considerably above that fixed for the cottage, you will see, at a glance, that if one wanted to buy a nice country place, this would be a much cheaper property than the other by reason o? its superiority in every respect. With no sense of having at all oommltted yourself, you will extract, from the proprietor of this place a promise of its refusal, should another man call to see It before you return. You will now thoughtfully take your way back to squalid apartments which you havo previously enjoyed. At meals, on the poor little (in comparison!) piazzas, on your pillow in your oppressive sleep-ing-room, sleepless because of delightful imaginings, you will see about repairs, and improvements in the last seen house and an endless vista of rapturous plana will set In for Its transformation Into. your country place.

ROSE ELIZABETH CLKVBLAND.

AM USEMKN1S.

The large sale of seats at Button's in-' dicates a big audience at Naylor's tonight, when W. T. Gilmore's great leg-* endary spectacle, "The Twelve Temptations." will be put upon the stage. It has been extensively advertised and our country cousins" are expected in forcer

The company with but few exceptions! will be foreign, comprising the most clever pantomlmlsts of the principal English theatres. The specialties for the entre acts are entirely new, and secured in the face of great competition by manager Yale. The scenery is from tho brushes of Harley Merry, who painted the "Devil's Auction" sceneiy Charles Oetz, late of the Boston Theatre and H. L. Reid, of the Globe Theatre, Boston, and Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York. The costumes for principals, ballet, supers and extra ballets are from designs by Earnest Biscbe, who stands formost in this line in Europe, being tho designer in chief of all the grand spectacles produced annually at the principal London Theatres, and were manufactured by the well-known firms of Eaves A Co., New York City, and Van Horn A Son, Philadelphia.

The ballet, including secondos and coryphees, are from the celebrated school of Mons. Bertram, of London. Premiers from the famous Theatre LaScala, Milan, Italy, and are under the direction of Slgnor Rossi, one of Europe's most noted maltre de ballet.

The specialties are all from abroad and, in point of fact, every feature will be entirely novel to this country. Mr. Yale has spent four months in Europe collecting novelties of every description, which will be placed In the best manner before the public.

There is nothing booked at Naylor's next week until Saturday evening, when will be presented,"Lights and Shadows," a new melodrama of New York life, which has been a great success In the East. It aflords opportunities for the most elaborate and realistic scenic display, and the company carries two car loads of scenery to present it. It is said to be a very strong play.

A bicyclist tells of an experience which he will long remember. He was in Newport and unfortunately found himself without money. He started home on bis wheel and became very hungry. He ate some walnute, then some sassafras, and finally tackled some green corn. He passed a number of orchards but bis early teaching bad not been in vain. He was too conscientious to steal even an apple. As he rode on be came across a farmer who invited him Into an or liard. The sustenance he bad part-rken ol made him sick and he could eat thing. When he reached the toll bridge at Clinton be could not pass because he bad not a cent. He caried his wheel across the railroad bridge and regpurfl the rwi be""^H the toll station, ii ne i« if not wiser for over-honesty, if the term is permis-

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